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sions in early life , for difference of constitutions , for latent seeds of disease , for peculiarities in the animal system , acting with an imperceptible influence on the temper and manners , and for unknown circumstances that
give a peculiar colour to the character . Though men may not take these things into the account in the opinion which they form of others , our heavenly Father , it is a consola-
tory thought , " knoweth our frame / The worthy person , whose history we are giving , to return from this digression , united with the gifts of the Christian minister a love of literature , a taste for the belles lettres , and the
manners of the gentleman . His spirit and principles , as a professor of Christianity and a Protestant Dissenter , like those of a consistent friend to religious inquiry , were liberal and catholic . His temper and manners in the social relations of life were
affectionate and generous . " To serve a friend and to relieve distress , " it has been observed by one who knew him well , " were to him the most delightful offices : " and he had a very lively sense of the respect and friendship
shewn to him by others ; and , though a warmth and hastiness of temper , truth will concede was a principal failing in his natural disposition , candour will hear with pleasure , that he was known to have laboured very hard to regulate and subdue it . His domestic character will live in the
memory and in the mournful regrets of his widow , his children and his pupils . On being laid aside from the stated and usual services of the pulpit , he removed to Leicester , and engaged in i plan of education . He had , during his residence at Stourbridge ,
conducted , with great reputation , a seminary for young gentlemen . For the education of youth he was , by disposition and acquirements , particularly qualified . He was now induced to change the objects of his literary labours , by directing them to the cultivation of the female mind , in
conjunction with Mrs . Jenkins , a lady well-qualified herself [ to form the youthful intellect and manners of the ex * His laudable efforts in this use-
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f ful and important department were , ¦ alas ! soon terminated , by a sudden I dismission from this scene of activity ; and trial . He was , indeed , prepared * for the awful close of life . He had
anticipated it . He had wished for it : he had no fear of death , and met it , in the few moments of recollection , which , after awakening from sleep , preceded it , with composure of mind and resignation , Oct . 23 ,. 1814 , aged 53 . " Blessed are the dead who die in
the Lord ; who sweetly fall asleep in Jesus : they rest from their labours , and their works do follow them . " Feb % 1815 . A FRIEND . P . S . On occasion of Mr . Jenkins ' ordination at Banbury , in 1793 , the late Rev . Samuel Palmer delivered a
very appropriate , judicious , and impressive discourse , from Cantic . i . 6 . under the title of a charge , " On the Necessity of keeping our own vineyards ; " which , in the course of the next year was repeated at an association , and published at the request of
several ministers . From the apology for undertaking that part in the services of the day r and with which the discourse opens , it appears that Mr . Jenkins had stood , in a former connexion with Mr . Palmer - perhaps , as an assistant in his seminary .
During Mr . Jenkins * residence at Banbury he entered into the matrimonial relationship with a young lady of a respectable family , in the congregation . At that time the parish church was rebuilding , and the mem * bers of the Establishment met for
religious worship at suitable times , in the Meeting-House of the Protestant Dissenters , under the sanction of an act of parliament , which was passed to legalize marriages and other
parochial services performed in it , till the parish church was opened again . Under these peculiar circumstances , Mr . Jenkins was married by the parochial clergyman in a pew in his own meeting-house .
The Funeral Sermon , for Mr . Jenkins , was preached by the Rev . Dr . Toulmin , of Birmingham , from Rev . xiv . 7 . The everlasting gospeL A poem by Mr . Jenkins was inserted ix . 572-
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Memoir of the late Rev . Herbert Jenkins . 71
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/7/
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